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The following is a list of nicknames used for individual playing cards of the French-suited standard 52-card pack.Sometimes games require the revealing or announcement of cards, at which point appropriate nicknames may be used if allowed under the rules or local game culture.
A complete set of cards. In English-speaking countries, a standard pack comprises 52 French-suited cards. In other countries, packs of 24, 32, 36, 40 or 48 cards are common as are German or Latin-suited packs. Also deck. packet A portion of a pack, less than the whole pack. [82] pair royal Three cards of the same denomination . [84]
The most common deck sold in France is the 32-card deck with the 2 to 6 removed and 1s as the index for aces. 52-card packs are also popular. The French have a unique habit of associating their face cards with historical or mythical personages which survives only in the portrait officiel .
Golden Hand (from the Golden Mean) AK47: After the AK-47 assault rifle developed by Mikhail Kalashnikov: KKKK: Four Horsemen, Kings of Leon: AAAKKK: DUPLEX (Any two cards can be used. Basically two sets of trips. Instead of a 5-card hand called "Full House" you have a 6-card hand which makes a "bigger full house" or Duplex) KKKAA
Its original French name is Trèfle which means "clover" and the card symbol depicts a three-leafed clover leaf.The Italian name is Fiori ("flower"). However, the English name "Clubs" is a translation of basto, the Spanish name for the suit of batons suggesting that Spanish-suited cards were used in England before French suits were invented.
However, most suits have two normal cards and omit one of the other ranks. The exceptions are the November suit (which has one card of each rank, leaving only one normal card), and the December suit (which has three normal cards and one bright card). In Korea, where they are known as hwatu cards, the November and December suits are swapped.
In French, it means summary; French speakers would use instead curriculum vitæ, or its abbreviation, C.V. (like most other English speakers). risqué (also risque) sexually suggestive; in French, the meaning of risqué is "risky", with no sexual connotation. Francophones use instead osé (lit. "daring") or sometimes dévergondé (very formal ...
Truc, pronounced in France and in Spain, is a 15th-century bluff and counter-bluff trick-taking card game which has been likened to poker for two. It is played in Occitania, [1] Sarthe (where it is known as trut), Poitou (tru) and the Basque Country (truka), and is still very popular in the Valencia region (joc del truc).